ARTIST STATEMENT

It is a truism that a good artwork cannot be made from a bad idea-- and it is this truism with which I want to take issue.  I claim that a concept is not what much conceptual art thinks it is.  A concept cannot preexist a work, and does not exist outside of its instantiation; it is not something indicated or referred to, but embodied (and embodied in such a way as to preclude disembodiment).  The idea of the work might indeed be necessary for an artist in order to begin, but the artwork itself does not care about a good idea.  I suggest that the beginning need not even be conceptually sound at all.  One can reasonably begin from anywhere as long as one is willing to move away from it.

I've heard many artists quoted as trying to produce a given object in the most efficient way possible.  The idea of a shortest distance between two points.  The problem with this strategy is that it requires point B to already be contained in point A.  Why settle for a Point B that is simply a representation of a beginning to varying degrees of exactness?  My course between two points is by varying degrees of roundaboutness.  My artwork aims at the cultivation of the ill-conceived.  My shapes are sitting at the cusp of being a shape.  I am not them; they are a not me; they are themselves, and only they can express themselves.

This space bunching and bundling up.  These ideas between objects.  We are a certain shade of boring.  We are shapeshifters.